Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...build networks of activism and care (13:40). Part Five Bridgforth on growing up in Los Angeles, raised by people from Memphis, and New Orleans, listening to stories, and writing to...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html. Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...time recognized this; civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, for instance, called lynching not a southern, but a national pastime).2Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America," January 1900, accessed October...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 2–June 8, 2008 "It's interesting that as soon as you start telling the story of racism, you start reliving...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...red velvet wedding jackets, banjos, hand-carved walking canes, soccer jerseys, foreign-language newspapers, real estate brochures entreating “Come to Virginia!” The exhibit emphasizes the multiplicity of reasons immigrants came to Virginia...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...within the book's narrative, provides a caution about the allure of making digital maps and the precision they seem to imply. Grand Canyon Beaver Canyon. Photograph by Steve Leding, 1954....
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night when stubborn life got back on its feet, round eyes clear and...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...alongside the old Carondelet Canal, and to New Orleans's ubiquitous neutral grounds, as median strips are called in these parts. The Spanish had excavated the canal (also known as the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...popularity came and went with an alarming ease following the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America. In the heady days following Henry...